The Most Interesting Man In The World is an ad campaign for Dos Equis beer which began airing in the United States and Canada in 2006. It features a distinguished older gentleman who is quite the fascinating fellow, a classier version of the Chuck Norris FactsMeme, with strong overtones of Ernest Hemingway (er, if Hemingway were Hispanic). The above narration is only some of his purported acts. He is portrayed by Jonathan Goldsmith, a prolific character actor with credits going back to the '60s.

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Jonathan Goldsmith's iteration of the character was retired in March 2016, as the Most Interesting Man in the World left on a one-way trip to Mars. Watch his journey to the final frontier here. He was succeeded by Augustin Legrand.

Bottled Cool: In flashbacks he is doing something amazing; in the present he's at a party and surrounded by sexy women. He prefers to drink Dos Equis.

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The Bus Came Back: Jonathan Goldsmith, as the Most Interesting Man, showed up in a rare version of the Super Bowl 2019 ad for Stella Artois featuring Sarah Jessica Parker and Jeff Bridges, despite Goldsmith's version being retired. Few can say they actually saw this clip, and the linked video is the only known archive of it.

Expy: Literature-minded people will notice that the Man looks and acts quite a bit like Ernest Hemingway turned Up to Eleven. Scrolling through Hemingway's article on The Other Wiki will present pictures reminiscent of the Dos Equis ads. Also, in the Paris section of the article, Hemingway is quoted as saying "the most interesting people in the world" lived in Paris at the time (as one of his motivations to move there). He's also an expy of Goldsmith's late sailing partner and friend Fernando Lamas; the bar setting is an homage to Billy Crystal's SNL homage to Lamas.

Friendly Enemy: "Even his enemies list him as their emergency contact number."

Friend to All Living Things: Zigzagged. While he has been seen ice fishing and posing with a recently caught marlin, the Man has also fed baby birds, befriended monarch butterflies and snow monkeys, freed a bear whose paw was caught in a trap, and once rescued a fox from a fox hunt. In fact, it's entirely possible that, considering the Man's track record and general charisma, the marlin simply jumped up on the pier in order to have its picture taken with him.

The Munchausen: The frame narrative is him telling stories of his exploits at a party. All of them are strange.

Noodle Incident: The commercials are all these; bits and pieces of footage from the Man's various adventures. They include speeding away in a lifeboat full of beauty pageant contestants, leading several foreign dignitaries through a cave with nothing but a lighter and a snappy tuxedo, and being chased by mounted foxhunters while cradling the fox in his arms.

Our Zombies Are Different: "He is forbidden from walking through cemeteries, because of that one incident where he raised the dead."

Tony Hale:[in Dos Equis commercial pose] "I don't always drink beer, but when I do-" [his cell phone rings and he answers a call, getting up and talking despite the director telling him they're still rolling, annoying the two actresses he is sitting with]

Even So Random! got in the act with Grady Mitchell as "The Coolest Kid in School". The difference? He endorses three different things!

California radio station 102.5 loves to parody and poke fun at anything they can find...so it doesn't come as a surprise that they have a series of commercials about "The Most Annoying Man In The World".

Atlanta sports talk station WCNN (680 "The Fan") had a series of promos of host Christopher Rude as "The least interesting man on Atlanta sports radio."

When he takes his shirt off, kittens die.He doesn't look for Waldo. Waldo looks for him.His vomit is used as soup in fine French restaurants.

"I don't always stare at your boobs, but when I do...I'm sorry, where was I?"

In the Muppet fandom this became The Most Interesting Muppeteer In The World, born out of a comment by Carroll Spinney during an interview the site conducted. Spinney considered his colleague Jerry Nelson to be the true Most Interesting Man In the World.

In the WarMachine table top game fandom, some Retribution of Scyrah players refer to old Garryth, Blade of Retribution as The Most Interesting Elf in the World (likely due to his facial hair).

Parody Sue: Obviously his exploits are silly (such as speaking French in Russian) and played for laughs.

Rated M for Manly: Between his myriad adventures and his penchant for attracting beautiful women, he's definitely this.

Red Shirt: He played a Red Shirt in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Corbomite Maneuver" . . . and lived!note We're not kidding! Goldsmith is credited as a nameless crewman for that episode, who didn't die (at least on-screen).

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